Join our "Race: Out Loud" series Book Club

June 18, 2012

Throughout the summer, WBEZ and Vocalo will be talking about race – out loud, and on the air, in frank conversations and stories, and in lively public events. We're calling the series, Race: Out Loud and we’re asking: What would it sound like if people said what they really think and feel about race, about ethnicity? What if they really talked about how race shapes them, their lives, and attitudes? What would we hear, if we listened?

As part of this series, we're inviting you to read Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. Authored twenty years ago, this 400-page collection of personal reflections and experiences – mostly from Chicagoans – presents an opportunity to ask: What’s changed in the past twenty years? What hasn't? And how do the questions Studs asked, about segregation, equality of opportunity, and hope make sense today?

Click here to place the book on hold at a CPL Branch Library near you.

2) Start reading, and as you go, remember you can check back at WBEZ.org each week for our "Where are they now?" series, profiling key storytellers from the book to hear what they think about race twenty years later: